Cannabis Chronicles

This site is designed to be a little bit of everything, with the kitchen sink thrown in for good measure. In our introductory essay we outlined a number of ambitions/dreams we have for this journal. Obviously, we’ve got a lot of different ideas for topics the Cannabis Chronicles could cover. Please excuse the pun, but the three_little_birds don’t want the Cannabis Chronicles to get “pigeon-holed” into any one focus. The medicinal Cannabis community is diverse, and so are our own interests. So it only makes sense to expect this journal to be diverse too.

Our primary focus is to provide information and educational resources for individuals seeking healing (or relief) from herbal medicines. Tweedy bird is quite the budding herbalist, and we can also expect that she’ll share some wisdom about a wide variety of different healing herbs. While the focus of this journal will be primarily on Cannabis and it’s medicinal uses, we don’t intend to focus exclusively on marijuana.

Tweedy bird also knows what it’s like to be a “newbie” medi-user. Her own fascinating story of coming from a strictly religious Mennonite background, to becoming a user and advocate of medical marijuana will be told here. So, we’ll try and remember our own days as novice medical users, and hopefully we can help them with a few very basic bits of advice and info as we go along.

One further ambition for this journal is to provide growing information, so medical users of cannabis can learn to become self sufficient. That means we’ll be recreating our old “Growing LUI with the 3LB” thread from Cannabis World, where it was the most viewed grow thread in that site’s history. We’ll be updating and revising our “Molasses Manual” and our “Guano Guide”, as well as re-visiting our soil re-mixing techniques and a wide variety of other topics of interest to organic gardeners.

We are planning a series of book reviews, hoping to point newbie medical users to the best printed resources available, and point them away from books that are not so useful. Of course not all books are targeted at novices, so there should still be plenty of interest to experienced medical users and growers too. Our review of Sinsemilla: Marijuana Flowers is meant to be the first in a planned series looking at “bud books”, a category that includes Jason King’s Cannabibles, Rosenthal’s Big Book of Buds series, Cherniak’s Great Books of Hashish, and few other goodies.

We also hope to provide a look at information and resources that are available online for medical herbalists. The real reason our sidebar link list is currently so short, is because we plan to provide a brief journal entry describing every site or blog we link to, detailing it’s atmosphere and resources, before adding it to the appropriate link list. Some folks might ask if such an effort is worth the time and bother? The truth is that there are a truly diverse variety of message boards etc. available for folks to choose from, each has it’s own unique atmosphere, so that’s an important consideration when choosing an online home.

In addition to undertaking a project to review books, magazines and online resources for medical cannabis users, we’ve also started a side-project that is designed to review books that are of likely interest to preservationists, and individuals interested in dedicating themselves to breeding better herbal medicines. The current working title for this series of reviews is, “Building a Breeder’s Bookshelf”. This is actually is something we’ve been envisioning for some time, our first tentative notes and scribblings on the idea date back to 2003-2004.

We will openly admit we were inspired to take on this specific project by the prior works of elder members of the cannabis community, individuals who posted under the names Hybe and Vic High at message boards like Overgrow and Cannabis World. Both of those individuals posted lists of books relevant to folks who were interested in learning the art and science of breeding Cannabis. Our hope is to carry the concept a step further and to outline a variety of textbooks and tomes, highlighting books we have here at the Bird’s Nest that have given insight, or proven helpful, in our own studies.

As we said in our introduction, we plan to keep an “eagle eye” perched to look for news that may be of interest to folks who use and grow medicinal herbs. We’ll also be compiling some historical entries, giving a bird’s eye look back at events that have effected or influenced the Cannabis community. It’s said that laughter is one of the best medicines, so we’ll not forget to feature topical humor when we can.

As if all of that were not ambitious enough, we have a number of collaborative projects we hope to undertake. We plan to take advantage of an offer by an activist friend, a professional political organizer who has graciously agreed to provide the Cannabis Chronicles with a few helpful essays on organizing and taking action to end prohibition. Another collaborative project we hope to document at the Cannabis Chronicles, will be focused on collective efforts by a group of dedicated preservationists to protect and preserve genetic diversity.

We’ll be asking some individuals from the medical cannabis community if they would agree to being profiled and/or interviewed. In a move that might surprise some individuals, we’ve already attempted to extended an olive branch to Jorge Cervantes, making the offer to feature him as our very first virtual interview. We cannot predict if Jorge will accept our offer or not, but, regardless of his decision, we’d like to go “on the record” with our offer to overcome past differences we may have had. The whole idea of doing virtual “interviews” is to give a little history and insight into some of the usual (an unusual) individuals that make up the very diverse cannabis community, and to do so without at least attempting to feature Jorge would not be fair or balanced.

Further on down the road, we’d eventually hope to host another separate collaborative blog at the3LB.com, in it’s own sub-domain. The idea being to create a “soapbox” where some of our friends and family can create their own virtual scrapbook/journal. That particular project would be totally dependent on finding a small group of trustworthy individuals who share a keen interest in collaborative canna-blogging. And, we even dream of recruiting a team of field testers to review a variety of growing and smoking products, a 3LB & friends version of Cannabis Chronicles Consumer Reports.

That’s a pretty ambitious group of objectives, and it’s quite likely that not everything we’ve mentioned will come to fruition. In our eyes, there’s no great dishonor in having a more ambition than available time, because it’s quite likely that our available time and energy will be the factor that decides how far we can take this journal.

Regardless of the final outcome, we wanted to share a more complete vision of what we hope the Cannabis Chronicles can become.